📍 Where were you when Perseverance made history?
A year ago, NASA’s Perseverance rover made landfall on the surface of Mars. Since then, it has been hard at work investigating the mysteries of our solar system and searching for evidence of ancient alien life.
Weighing roughly 1 ton (1,025 kilograms), Perseverance is the heaviest rover ever to touch down on Mars. The rover has collected the first rock core samples from another planet, served as a base station for Ingenuity, the first helicopter on Mars, and tested MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment), the first prototype oxygen generator on the Red Planet.
Perseverance celebrated its first year on Mars learning how to “run”! Well, kind of—it set a new record for the most distance driven by a Mars rover in a single day, traveling almost 1,050 feet (320 meters) on Feb. 14, 2022. This was possible as it performed the entire drive using AutoNav, the self-driving software that allows Perseverance to find its own path around rocks and other obstacles.
Comment below where you were when you found out Perseverance landed safely on Mars 👇
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